Troop Deployment (Macedonia)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions – in the House of Commons at 2:33 pm on 10 May 1999.

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Photo of Mr Tony Benn Mr Tony Benn Labour, Chesterfield 2:33, 10 May 1999

Given the fact that the American Senate has voted overwhelmingly against the commitment of ground troops, is it not clear that the air war of itself cannot achieve the objectives set? Will the Secretary of State tell the House how the indiscriminate bombing of Yugoslavia, including the bombing of a hospital and a market with cluster bombs, and the bombing of refugee camps and the Chinese embassy, contributes in any way whatever to the restoration to the refugees of their rightful homes in Kosovo?